outreaching

verb

present participle of outreach
as in exceeding
to go beyond the limit of the demand for power outreached the utility's ability to supply it

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  1. exceeding
  2. surpassing
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  • Businesses remained the main source of research investment, with enterprise spending exceeding around $420 billion for the first time, accounting for more than 77% of the national total.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
  • He is also accused of exceeding his authority under Ohio law by failing to identify any statutory or constitutional source of legal authority for his order.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026
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  • That would see her in the role into January 2029, surpassing Sarah Sanders’s time of almost two years in the job.
    — Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
  • That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of surpassing
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“Outreaching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outreaching. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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